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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts
Tazria' (Leviticus 12:1-13:59) and Haftarah (2 Kings 4:42-5:19):
The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) and Haftarah (2 Samuel 6:1-7:17): The
JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
'Aharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30) and Haftarah (Ezekiel 22:1-19):
The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are
agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the
traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency
between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks,
sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by
a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic
and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural
approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of
"clothing" sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate
forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages
used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between
the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art
shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use
of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book
contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred
scripture and art.
Pinhas (Numbers 25:10-30:1) and Haftarah (1 Kings 18:46-19:21): The
JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
'Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23) and Haftarah (Ezekiel 44:15-31): The
JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
Despite considerable scholarly efforts for many years, the last two
decades of the Kingdom of Israel are still beneath the veil of
history. What was the status of the Kingdom after its annexation by
Assyria in 732 BCE? Who conquered Samaria, the capital of the
Kingdom? When did it happen? One of the primary reasons for this
situation lies in the discrepancies found in the historical
sources, namely the Hebrew Bible and the Assyrian texts. Since
biblical studies and Assyriology are two distinct disciplines, the
gaps in the sources are not easy to bridge. Moreover, recent great
progress in the archaeological research in the Southern Levant
provides now crucial new data, independent of these textual
sources. This volume, a collection of papers by leading scholars
from different fields of research, aims to bring together, for the
first time, all the available data and to discuss these conundrums
from various perspectives in order to reach a better and deeper
understanding of this crucial period, which possibly triggered in
the following decades the birth of "new Israel" in the Southern
Kingdom of Judah, and eventually led to the formation of the Hebrew
Bible and its underlying theology.
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be
one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement.
The great-grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, founder of the movement,
Rabbi Nachman came to be regarded as a great figure and leader in
his own right, guiding his followers on a spiritual path inspired
by Kabbalah. In the last four years of his life he turned to
storytelling, crafting highly imaginative, allegorical tales for
his Hasidim. Three-time National Jewish Book Award winner Howard
Schwartz has masterfully compiled the most extensive collection of
Nachman's stories available in English. In addition to the
well-known Thirteen Tales, including "The Lost Princess" and "The
Seven Beggars," Schwartz has included over one hundred narratives
in the various genres of fairy tales, fables, parables, dreams, and
folktales, many of them previously unknown or believed lost. One
such story is the carefully guarded "Tale of the Bread," which was
never intended to be written down and was only to be shared with
those Bratslavers who could be trusted not to reveal it. Eventually
recorded by Rabbi Nachman's scribe, the tale has maintained its
mythical status as a "hidden story." With utmost reverence and
unfettered delight, Schwartz has carefully curated A Palace of
Pearls alongside masterful commentary that guides the reader
through the Rabbi's spiritual mysticism and uniquely Kabbalistic
approach, ultimately revealing Rabbi Nachman to be a literary
heavyweight in the vein of Gogol and Kafka. Vibrant, wise, and
provocative, this book is a must-read for any lover of fairy tales
and fables.
The tension between reason and revelation has occupied Jewish
philosophers for centuries, who were committed, on the one hand, to
defending Judaism, and, on the other hand, to remaining loyal to
philosophical principles. Maimonides is considered the most
prominent Jewish religious philosopher, whose aim was to reconcile
philosophy, in particular Aristotelian philosophy, with the
fundamental principles of Judaism. But many other Jewish thinkers,
before and after him, also struggled with this task, raising the
question whether it is possible to attain this reconciliation. The
connection between philosophy and religion was often not an obvious
one. As a consequence, it could serve in some cases as grounds for
supporting Maimonides' project, while in others it could lead to
rejection. Scepticism and Anti septicism in Medieval Jewish Thought
focuses on sceptical questions, methods, strategies, and approaches
raised by Jewish thinkers in the Middle Ages. In a series of
lectures, we examine the variety of attitudes presented by these
thinkers, as well as the latest readings of contemporary scholars
concerning those attitudes.
Written by a leading authority on Chinese philosophy, Decoding Dao
uniquely focuses on the core texts in Daoist philosophy, providing
readers with a user-friendly introduction that unravels the
complexities of these seminal volumes. * Offers a detailed
introduction to the core texts in Daoist philosophy, the Dao De
Jing and the Zhuangzi, two of the most widely read and most
challenging texts in China s long literary history * Covers the
three main ways the texts can be read: as religious, mystical, and
philosophical works * Explores their historical context, origins,
authorship, and the reasons these seminal texts came into being,
along with the key terms and approaches they take * Examines the
core philosophical arguments made in the texts, as well as the many
ways in which they have been interpreted, both in China itself and
in the West * Provides readers with an unrivalled insight into the
multifaceted philosophy of Daoism and the principles underlying
much of Chinese culture informed by the very latest academic
scholarship
An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English
translation of one of the earliest Zen texts Leading Buddhist
scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen,
based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving
collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled
The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were discovered in a sealed
cave on the old Silk Road, in modern Gansu, China, in the early
twentieth century. All more than a thousand years old, the
manuscripts have sometimes been called the Buddhist Dead Sea
Scrolls, and their translation has opened a new window onto the
history of Buddhism. Both accessible and illuminating, this book
explores the continuities between the ways in which Zen was
practiced in ancient times, and how it is practiced today in East
Asian countries such as Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam, as well
as in the emerging Western Zen tradition.
Few studies focus on the modes of knowledge transmission (or
concealment), or the trends of continuity or change from the
Ancient to the Late Antique worlds. In Antiquity, knowledge was
cherished as a scarce good, cultivated through the close
teacher-student relationship and often preserved in the closed
circle of the initated. From Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform
texts to a Shi'ite Islamic tradition, this volume explores how and
why knowledge was shared or concealed by diverse communities in a
range of Ancient and Late Antique cultural contexts. From caves by
the Dead Sea to Alexandria, both normative and heterodox approaches
to knowledge in Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities are
explored. Biblical and qur'anic passages, as well as gnostic,
rabbinic and esoteric Islamic approaches are discussed. In this
volume, a range of scholars from Assyrian studies to Jewish,
Christian and Islamic studies examine diverse approaches to, and
modes of, knowledge transmission and concealment, shedding new
light on both the interconnectedness, as well as the unique
aspects, of the monotheistic faiths, and their relationship to the
ancient civilisations of the Fertile Crescent.
Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19) and Haftarah (1 Kings 5:26-6:13): The
JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) and Haftarah (Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6): The
JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
Ki Tissa' (Exodus 30:11-34:35) and Haftarah (1 Kings 18:1-39): The
JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
Bere'shit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) and Haftarah (Isaiah 42:5-43:10): The
JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own
language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The
conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18) and Haftarah (Jeremiah 34:8-22;
33:25-26): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in
their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world.
The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and
substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a
general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah
portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion.
Jewish learning-for young people and adults-will never be the same.
The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey
K. Salkin's book The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS,
2017).
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